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‘The best book of the year… truly astonishing’ Sunday Express
‘An exciting novel – part love story, part psychological thriller’ Mail on Sunday
‘Surprising and suspenseful’ Observer
A GHOST STORY, A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER AND A TALE OF LOVE REDISCOVERED, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun, the dank and gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited.
But then Michael begins to change.
It starts when he thinks he sees, in a picture, the figure of a girl on a landing. As he changes, life becomes so much more fun and Elizabeth sees glimpses of a man she can fall in love with at last.
But who – or what – is changing Michael?
‘An exciting novel – part love story, part psychological thriller’ Mail on Sunday
‘Surprising and suspenseful’ Observer
A GHOST STORY, A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER AND A TALE OF LOVE REDISCOVERED, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
Elizabeth has been married to Michael for ten years. She has adjusted to a fairly monotonous routine with her wealthy, decent but boring husband. Part of this routine involves occasional visits to Beinn Caorrun, the dank and gloomy house in a Scottish glen that Michael inherited.
But then Michael begins to change.
It starts when he thinks he sees, in a picture, the figure of a girl on a landing. As he changes, life becomes so much more fun and Elizabeth sees glimpses of a man she can fall in love with at last.
But who – or what – is changing Michael?
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Reviews
Told by husband and wife, this intriguing story of the impact of ghostly visitors is an unusual exploration of mental illness
The author of SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN impresses again with this absorbing tale of identity
What starts as a tale of domestic disharmony evolves into a gripping, ghostly page-turner
Paul Torday's third and extremely accomplished novel.. is another tour de force from one of our best emerging writers
Compelling and totally captivating
The finale is terrifying, harking back to old-fashioned ghost stories, but with a modern, plausible twist - it stood the hairs of my arms on end
Torday skilfully maintains a knife-edge tension... an original and satisfying thriller
A fantastically gripping and chilling novel
His prose remains anything but safe. It is supple, skilful and literary... this is a fabulously good yarn
Torday is a gifted writer, I loved it
A gently comic novel about schizophrenia sounds like the worst idea ever, but Torday pulls it off magnificently.. a clever, gripping novel
A compulsively readable psychological thriller... Torday's ability to keep the reader in the grip of a nightmare is exceptional